Fooled by science park publicity

AFTER nearly a year of campaigning, it was comforting to read that, at long last, it is dawning on our local politicians that they were hoodwinked by the so-called Kent Science Park publicity machine. And that plans for expansion were just a get-rich-quick scheme for the holding company and a select few local landowners.

Cllr Ferrin's U-turn is welcomed. Let's only hope it's not too late.

While the so-called Kent Science Park has rightly been drawing all the fire recently, have Cllr Ferrin and his colleagues at Swale House noticed the constant stream of applications from planning consultants on behalf of their clients for planning consent to convert "redundant" farm buildings in the countryside into light heavy industrial units?

Should our councillors be concerned with these harmless little earners for a few landowners and their planners who doubtless need the cash?

Not if they don't mind these micro-industrial enterprises migrating from the designated industrial estates in town, with the appropriate infrastructure and transport, to the few remaining open areas in the countryside. Is this Swale Forward?

Perhaps it's not too late for the landowners to make a ewe turn?

John Bonney,
Stockers Hill Road,
Rodmersham.